Alexander Forbes

- 1672

• Name	Alexander Forbes
  Gender	Male
  Title Suffix	of Boyndlie
  Title Suffix	Tutor of Pitsligo  [1, 2]
  	Tutor to Alexander Forbes, 2nd Lord Pitsligo (as second cousin to his father Alexander, the 1st Lord Pitsligo)
  Property	17 May 1656	Tyrie, Aberdeenshire, Scotland   [3]
  	Charter from Alexander Lord Forbes of the Barony of Kinaldie and the lands of Coldstone
  Property	15 Aug 1664	Tyrie, Aberdeenshire, Scotland   [3]
  	Charter of Resignation under the Great Seal erecting the lands of Kinaldie and Coldstone into a Barony
  Religion	1667	Tyrie, Aberdeenshire, Scotland   [4]
  	Presbyterian - Covenanter
  Property	7 May 1667	Tyrie, Aberdeenshire, Scotland   [4]
  	Fined £200 sterling for his past actions as a Covenanter, the sum representing a full year's rent of his estates
  Death	1672  [5, 6, 7]
  Person ID	I44867	East Jersey Genealogies
  Last Modified	19 Oct 2025

  
  

  Father	Alexander Forbes
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Christian Fraser
  Relationship	natural
  Family ID	F31462	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Margaret Forbes,   b. Abt 1620, Kilconquhar, Fife, Scotland
  Children	1. Henry Forbes,   b. Abt 1646, Tyrie, Aberdeenshire, Scotland d. 1700 (Age 54 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   2. Alexander Forbes,   b. Abt 1644, Tyrie, Aberdeenshire, Scotland d. Bef 1672 (Age < 27 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   3. Mary Forbes  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F31229	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	19 Oct 2025

  
  

  Family 2	Mary Elphinstone,   b. 1631
  Marriage	1656	Aberdeenshire, Scotland   [8]
  Marriage Contract	12 Jan 1655/56  [9]
  	Contract of Marriage between Alexander Forbes elder of Boynlie and Mary Elphingstoune, lawful daughter to Harie Elphingstoune of Calderhall with consent of her said father and also of Thomas Elphinstoune, fiar of Calderhall, her brother 12 Jan 1656 (GD37/144)
  Children	1. Captain John Forbes,   b. Abt 1650  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   2. Christian Forbes,   b. 1658, Aberdeenshire, Scotland  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F31236	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	19 Oct 2025

  
  

• Event Map

  Marriage - 1656 - Aberdeenshire, Scotland Property - Charter from Alexander Lord Forbes of the Barony of Kinaldie and the lands of Coldstone - 17 May 1656 - Tyrie, Aberdeenshire, Scotland Property - Charter of Resignation under the Great Seal erecting the lands of Kinaldie and Coldstone into a Barony - 15 Aug 1664 - Tyrie, Aberdeenshire, Scotland Religion - Presbyterian - Covenanter - 1667 - Tyrie, Aberdeenshire, Scotland Property - Fined £200 sterling for his past actions as a Covenanter, the sum representing a full year's rent of his estates - 7 May 1667 - Tyrie, Aberdeenshire, Scotland  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Sources

  [S3685] Tayler, Alistair, The House of Forbes, p353. [S3685] Tayler, Alistair, The House of Forbes, p347. [S3630] Michie, John Grant, Records of Invercauld, The, (Name: New Spalding Club; Location: Aberdeen; Date: 1901;), p51. [S3611] Privy Council of Scotland, The Register of the Privy Council of Scotland, 3rd Series, II, pp255, 282. [S3625] Thomas Thomson (ed.), Thomson, Thomas, Inquisitionum ad Capellam Domini Regis retornatarum: Abbrevio, (Name: Record Commission, Great Britain; Location: London;), Vol.1 Aberdeen (450). [S3526] National Records of Scotland, (Location: Edinburgh;), GD124/9/64. [S3685] Tayler, Alistair, The House of Forbes. p357 [S3632] Burke, John, A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol II, 1835, p371. [S3526] National Records of Scotland, (Location: Edinburgh;), GD37/144.